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Definition of Mashers
1. masher [n] - See also: masher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mashers
Literary usage of Mashers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theatrical and Circus Life: Or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-room and Sawdust by John Joseph Jennings (1882)
""mashers" AND "MASHING.' The masher is a remarkable creature. He hovers everywhere,
from the market-place to the meetinghouse and from the promenade to the ..."
2. Through Hell with Hiprah Hunt: A Series of Pictures and Notes of Travel ...by Arthur Henry Young by Arthur Henry Young (1901)
"... by permission, he goes along the edge of a void, and, turning to the right,
comes to the district where street-corner mashers are punished. ..."
3. The American Jew: An Exposé of His Career by Telemachus Thomas Timayenis (1888)
"Overdressed, with mincing gait and dandified mien, these Jew "mashers" are daily
to be seen strutting up and down the leading streets, ogling, with amazing ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"As to young Oxford nobs and the mashers, that 's jest where this chap shows the
Got the very wast eye for a likeness, my pippin, as ever I 've seen. ..."
5. The Iron Age Directory (1904)
"mashers.) Potato Machinery— Bateman Mfg. Co.. Grenloch. N. 3. (See Parere.
Apple and Potato.) Potato Cutters. Hooks. mashers— Potato mashers. ..."
6. American Negligence Cases: A Complete Collection of All Reported Negligence (1904)
"He ascended to the third floor by means of a stairway, obtained the mashers, and
on his return fell m to the elevator shaft onto the elevator, a distance of ..."
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